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| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aimless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having no goal |
| Synonyms: | accidental, any which way, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, erratic, fanciful, fickle, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss*, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward, bits-and-pieces, directionless, drifting, fits and starts, goalless, objectless, undirected, unguided |
| Antonyms: | determined, directed, pointed, purposeful, resolute, goal-oriented, motivated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | capricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to sudden behavior change |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, careless, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, every which way*, fanciful, fickle, fitful, flaky*, flighty, freakish, helter-skelter*, impulsive, inconstant, kinky*, mercurial, moody, mutable, odd, picky*, punchy*, queer, quirky, temperamental, ticklish, unpredictable, unreasonable, unstable, variable, volatile, wayward, whimsical, any way the wind blows, blowing hot and cold, changeful, gaga, humorsome, lubricious, notional, up and down, vagarious, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | constant, dependable, sensible, staid, steadfast, steady |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary, beguiling, deceiving, deluding |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | extravagant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indulgent, wasteful |
| Synonyms: | absurd, bizarre, costly, crazy, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, extortionate, extreme, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flashy, foolish, garish, gaudy, grandiose, immoderate, implausible, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, lavish, ludicrous, nonsensical, ornate, ostentatious, outrageous, preposterous, pretentious, prodigal, profligate, reckless, ridiculous, showy, silly, spendthrift, steep, unbalanced, unconscionable, unreasonable, unrestrained, overpriced |
| Antonyms: | close, economical, moderate, provident, reasonable, saving, stingy, thrifty, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | fabled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | legendary |
| Synonyms: | fabulous, famed, famous, fanciful, mythical, storied, unreal, fictional, mythological |
| Antonyms: | unknown, unheard of |
| Main Entry: | facetious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tongue-in-cheek, kidding |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip*, flippant, frivolous, funny, gay, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one's leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry |
| Antonyms: | formal, grave, serious, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant, ornamental |
| Synonyms: | adorned, baroque, chichi*, complicated, cushy, custom, decorative, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, fanciful, florid, gaudy, intricate, lavish, ornate, ostentatious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, special, spiffy*, sumptuous, unusual, beautifying, decorated, embellished, frilly, froufrou, garnished, gingerbread |
| Antonyms: | plain, unfancy, unornamented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Notes: | factitious refers to 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is genuine, while fictitious is 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is real; a factitious story might be designed to serve a purpose, but a fictitious story is intended to deceive fictional is pertaining to or found in fiction; fictitious is 'false, fraudulent' or 'non-existent' |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figurative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not literal, but symbolic |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, descriptive, fanciful, florid, flowery, illustrative, metaphorical, ornate, representative, typical, denotative, emblematic, emblematical, metaphoric, pictorial, poetical, signifying |
| Antonyms: | literal, real, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | grotesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ugly, misshapen |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, absurd, antic, bizarre, deformed, distorted, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fantastic, flamboyant, freakish, gross*, incongruous, ludicrous, malformed, monstrous, odd, outlandish, perverted, preposterous, queer, ridiculous, strange, uncanny, unnatural, weird, whimsical, grody, surrealistic |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, nice, pretty, shapely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | improbable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not likely |
| Synonyms: | doubtful, dubious, fanciful, far-fetched, flimsy*, iffy*, implausible, inconceivable, questionable, rare, slim, unbelievable, uncertain, unconvincing, unimaginable, unlikely, unsubstantial, weak, hundred-to-one, not expected, outside chance, slim and none, unheard of |
| Antonyms: | believable, likely, ostensible, plausible, possible, probable, tenable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insubstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, imaginary |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, chimerical, decrepit, ephemeral, false, fanciful, feeble, flimsy, fly-by-night*, fragile, frail, idle, illusory, immaterial, incorporeal, infirm, intangible, metaphysical, petty, poor, puny, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, imponderable, too little too late |
| Antonyms: | real, strong, substantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subjective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional; based on inner experience rather than fact |
| Synonyms: | abstract, biased, fanciful, idiosyncratic, illusory, individual, instinctive, introspective, introverted, intuitive, personal, prejudiced, nonobjective, nonrepresentative, unobjective |
| Antonyms: | objective, unbiased, unemotional, unprejudiced |
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